Browsing by Title

The purpose of this study was to determine factors, which motivate people to
watch electronic sports. The sample consisted of males and females aged 18 to 65
watching e-sport, both online and at live e-sport viewing ...

Early childhood education (ECE) centers are more than a series of contiguous classrooms. They are vibrant social communities where child and adult emotions are ever-present and integral to learning. Although much research ...

Two common reef fishes, the bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) and
the bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus), are used as model species for
understanding the function of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the ...

Early emotional competencies--emotion expression, emotion understanding, and emotion regulation--are believed to be the foundation of social success. There are few studies, however, that have considered how early emotional ...

This dissertation presents annual measures of earnings inequality for 255 metro regions in the U.S. for the years 1990 to 2004. Measures of industrial structure are also calculated for each metro to observe whether there ...

Ebola virus (EBOV) is an enveloped, ssRNA virus from the family Filoviridae capable of causing severe hemorrhagic fever with up to 80-90% mortality rates. The most recent outbreak of EBOV in West Africa starting in 2014 ...

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was one of the most significant artists of the
twentieth century. Tiffany’s artistic oeuvre encompassed nearly all mediums, but his
passion for color and light reached a synthesis in ...

This thesis describes the chronological process and the technical application of Social Art Practice concepts in ART-illery community workshops and subsequent themes that culminated in the work on display in my Masters of ...

Few studies of violent conflict focus explicitly on the environmental and
ecological relationships that occur in locations that experience violence. Rather,
traditional studies of focus on the political, economic, and ...

Hunting Creek is an embayment of the tidal Potomac River located just downstream of the City of Alexandria and the I-95/I-495 Woodrow Wilson bridge. This embayment receives treated wastewater from the Alexandria Renew ...